Where: Eureka County, Nevada (39.4° N, 116.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.6° S, 58.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Polygnathus gronbergi conodont zone, Bartine Member, Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)
• APk I section
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2000; reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: peel or thin section
Primary reference: A. E. H. Pedder and M. A. Murphy. 2004. Emsian (Lower Devonian) Rugosa of Nevada: revision of systematics and stratigraphic ranges, and reassessment of faunal provincialism. Journal of Paleontology 78(5):838-865 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90954: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Polygnathus gronbergi conodont | |
Icriodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1938 conodont | |
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa nevadana Merriam 1940 | |
Anthozoa | |
Zonophyllum robertsense horn coral
Atopocystis mucronata Pedder 2004 horn coral | |
Cyathophyllum eurekaense Merriam 1974 horn coral | |
Stummelasma lonense Stumm 1937 horn coral | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral |